Lamentations 3:2
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 30:26 : 26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
- Isa 59:9 : 9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
- Jer 4:23 : 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
- Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
- Lam 2:1 : 1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
- Lam 3:53-55 : 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. 54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. 55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
- Amos 5:18-20 : 18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. 20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
- Jude 1:6 : 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
- Jude 1:13 : 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
- Deut 28:29 : 29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
- Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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- Lam 3:3-75 verses84%
3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
6 He hath set me in dark pces, as they that be dead of old.
7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
- Job 19:8-92 verses81%
8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
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3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
- Lam 3:9-124 verses80%
9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret pces.
11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desote.
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
- Ps 143:3-42 verses79%
3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
- Job 10:21-222 verses77%
21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
- Ps 139:11-122 verses77%
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
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13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desote and faint all the day.
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23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
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11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
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29 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
- Job 3:4-52 verses74%
4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the dee.
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6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
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26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
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28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses74%
15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
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18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
- Job 17:12-132 verses74%
12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
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3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
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19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
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25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
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22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
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16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
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9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
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15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
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9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: